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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1999 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For contributions to the design, scale-up, and yield improvement of recombinant protein production systems.

Overview

James R. Swartz is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a particular focus on molecular biology as a subfield. Additional areas of study include renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, biomedical engineering, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, and ecology.

The main topics their work covers include:

  • Viral Infectious Diseases and Gene Expression in Insects
  • Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research
  • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
  • Metalloenzymes and iron-sulfur proteins
  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • CAR-T cell therapy research
  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering

Their publication record includes contributions to several frequent venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Current Opinion in Biotechnology
  • New Biotechnology
  • ACS Catalysis
  • International Journal of Hydrogen Energy

Recent papers authored or co-authored by James R. Swartz include:

  • "Cell-free technologies for biopharmaceutical research and production" (2022), published in Current Opinion in Biotechnology
  • "Opportunities toward hydrogen production biotechnologies" (2020), published in Current Opinion in Biotechnology
  • "Bioelectrosynthesis systems" (2021), published in Current Opinion in Biotechnology
  • "Engineered clostridial [FeFe]-hydrogenase shows improved O2 tolerance in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii" (2020), published in International Journal of Hydrogen Energy
  • "An approach to rapid distributed manufacturing of broad spectrum anti-viral griffithsin using cell-free systems to mitigate pandemics" (2023), published in New Biotechnology

Frequent coauthors who have collaborated with James R. Swartz include:

  • Govind Rao
  • Shayan Borhani
  • Max Z. Levine
  • Dingyin Tao
  • Christopher A. LeClair

In 1999, James R. Swartz was recognized as a Member of the National Academy of Engineering. This acknowledgment was given for contributions to the design, scale-up, and yield improvement of recombinant protein production systems.

Best Publications

  • Advances in Escherichia coli production of therapeutic proteins.

    James R Swartz

  • Process for bacterial production of polypeptides

    Woon-Lam Susan Leung;James R. Swartz

  • Mimicking the Escherichia coli cytoplasmic environment activates long‐lived and efficient cell‐free protein synthesis

    Michael C. Jewett;James R. Swartz

  • An integrated cell‐free metabolic platform for protein production and synthetic biology

    Michael C Jewett;Kara A Calhoun;Alexei Voloshin;Jessica J Wuu

  • Regeneration of adenosine triphosphate from glycolytic intermediates for cell‐free protein synthesis

    Dong‐Myung Kim;James R. Swartz

  • Prolonging cell‐free protein synthesis with a novel ATP regeneration system

    Dong-Myung Kim;James R. Swartz

  • Virus-like particles: Next-generation nanoparticles for targeted therapeutic delivery

    Marcus J. Rohovie;Maya Nagasawa;James R. Swartz

  • Prolonging Cell-Free Protein Synthesis by Selective Reagent Additions

    Dong-Myung Kim;James R. Swartz

  • Polyethylene glycol enhanced protein refolding.

    Jeffrey L. Cleland;Stuart E. Builder;James R. Swartz;Marjorie Winkler

  • Production and stabilization of the trimeric influenza hemagglutinin stem domain for potentially broadly protective influenza vaccines

    Yuan Lu;John P. Welsh;James R. Swartz

  • Expression of Active Human Tissue-Type Plasminogen Activator in Escherichia coli

    Ji Qiu;James R. Swartz;George Georgiou

  • Site-Specific Incorporation of p-Propargyloxyphenylalanine in a Cell-Free Environment for Direct Protein−Protein Click Conjugation

    Bradley C. Bundy;James R. Swartz

  • Energizing cell‐free protein synthesis with glucose metabolism

    Kara A. Calhoun;James R. Swartz

  • Developing cell-free biology for industrial applications.

    Jim Swartz

  • Escherichia coli-based cell-free synthesis of virus-like particles.

    Bradley C. Bundy;Marc J. Franciszkowicz;James R. Swartz

  • High-Yield Expression of Heterologous [FeFe] Hydrogenases in Escherichia coli

    Jon M. Kuchenreuther;Celestine S. Grady-Smith;Celestine S. Grady-Smith;Alyssa S. Bingham;Simon J. George;Simon J. George

  • Surface functionalization of virus-like particles by direct conjugation using azide-alkyne click chemistry.

    Kedar G. Patel;James R. Swartz

  • Development of cell-free protein synthesis platforms for disulfide bonded proteins.

    Aaron R. Goerke;James R. Swartz

  • An economical method for cell-free protein synthesis using glucose and nucleoside monophosphates.

    Kara A. Calhoun;James R. Swartz

  • In vitro and in vivo redox states of the Escherichia coli periplasmic oxidoreductases DsbA and DsbC.

    John C. Joly;James R. Swartz

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael C. Jewett
Michael C. Jewett Northwestern University
Ronald Levy
Ronald Levy Stanford University
Stephen P. Cramer
Stephen P. Cramer Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
R. David Britt
R. David Britt University of California, Davis
Simon J. George
Simon J. George University of California, Davis
George Georgiou
George Georgiou The University of Texas at Austin
Shoshana Levy
Shoshana Levy Stanford University
John P. Cooke
John P. Cooke Houston Methodist
Alexander S. Spirin
Alexander S. Spirin Russian Academy of Sciences
Harry B. Greenberg
Harry B. Greenberg Stanford University

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